The Podcast resurrected with NotebookLM!
🎥Vlog
I’ve officially joined the AI craze and finally started testing many AI tools consistently. One of them is NotebookLM which lets you create “notebooks” where you feed it with documents, sources, data and it summarizes things for you or answers your questions… or creates a podcast! Now, that last bit is really interesting and I’m using it now to publish a podcast based off of my writing:
The two AI hosts are really smart!
Before I explain how this podcast episode was done, just spend your next 8 minutes listening to it (the AI magic starts after my 1-minute intro):
How about The Podcast FM? Why not “ressurect” it this way?
Radek and I recorded The Podcast FM for 4 years straight (2017-2021) and we stopped in May of 2021… but we still had a few hundred listeners ready for more content so instead of completely leaving this podcast be, I decided to “ressurect it” by using the AI co-hosts.
What’s cool about it is that now the episodes are shorter but they are still very interesting as the discussions are based on my essays. Usually the featured ones.
From an essay to a podcast episode of two co-hosts talking!
Here’s how this podcast was magically produced:
- I set up the NotebookLM account using my Google ID.
- I created a “New Notebook” and added as source my latest essay: Time is Money
- Then I opened “Notebook Guide” and in “Audio overview” created the “deep dive” conversation.
- I downloaded the audio file, imported to the Garage Band on my iPad.
- I recorded intro in QuickTime on my Mac using my podcasting setup and microphone and also saved this file in iCloud and imported it to Garageband on the iPad.
- I glued the two files together in Garageband and exported the project as an audiofile.
- I created an episode in Transistor.fm where we host also NoOffice podcast and that’s it! Done.
What’s the conversation like?
Just subscribe to my “The Podcast” to listen to the latest episode and the future ones.
Wait, future ones? Will I be publishing more? Hell yes!
Oh yeah, I’m not stopping there. I’m going to be posting a regular weekly podcast by converting my best essays into these “deep dives” and posting them for your enjoyment.
However, I want to improve a few things:
- I might use multiple sources, like multiple articles of mine for one “deep dive”
- I will record a shorter intro, 1 minute is too much for this one. Just a quick hello and on with the show.
- I will record an outro maybe to ask a question or an other “call to action” depending on the show’s topic.
Next up? My essay on Weekly Template! Stay tuned for next week…